Vintage Antique Jewelry Box Popotillo Straw Art Mexican Folk Art Deco

Vintage Mexican folk straw-art, a popote art scene of a Mexican marketplace, 1930's. The scene is created using thousands of pieces of dyed straw or grass (popote, in Spanish), a wonderful and very labor-intensive art form. The box is decorated on its four sides designs. Also, the box is decorated with hand made designs on the wood. The art of weaving straw into pictures by using and combining the natural colors and shades of oats, barley, rye, wheat, and other grasses. The colors in this popote art picture are truly works of art very bright and vibrant; there has been no fading due to sunlight and direct lighting. This piece has been highly treasured!
I purchased this straw mosaic box at an estate sale.

Circa 1930
Condition is excellent!
The box measures 4 3/4" long x 2" tall x 3 1/2" wide.

From Wikipedia:
The grass grows in states of Mexico, Morelos, Hidalgo, and Puebla. Mexico City is the center of popotillo art, and several award-winning artists have formed a workshop, "Popotillo Color," there.[2] While common in the 19th century, popotillo art enjoyed the most popularity in the 1930s and 1940s in Mexico City. Popotillo workshops have been offered in Los Angeles, California.[3]

The grass is first hand-dyed. Before European contact, exclusively natural dyes were used and the straw was soaked in aguamiel or agave juice.[3] Then the artist draws a design, which is then covered by a fine layer of "cera de Campeche," a special type of beeswax. The straw is then cut down to workable sizes, sometimes as fine as a single millimeter in length. The artist then carefully presses the pieces of straw into the beeswax. When the design is finished, a fixative is applied to protect the finished work.[2]